ER peer interviews? Help please!!

[NeoPediRN]

I have a second interview for an ER position this week, and this time it's with my potential coworkers. I've never been on this type of interview before and I'm so excited and so nervous. I REALLY want this job!! Have you ever done peer interviews? What do they entail? What kind of questions should I be prepared for? What should I want to know about their ER as someone without previous experience in one?

Also, what kind of attire?? Should I wear another suit or just a dress shirt and slacks? Should I ask HR about the formality?

[tele jelly]

We do peer interviews at my hospital. We ask situational questions during them like: "Tell me about a conflict you had and how you solved it...," "How do you manage time...." "How do you keep a commitment.." etc. etc. None of our questions are pointed nursing questions.

I ALWAYS say dress up for an interview. Look your best to impress! We had a girl interview in a skirt that was too small, and bra straps hanging out. (Obviously you wouldn't wear that)...but I couldn't even take her seriously. I didn't listen to a word that came out of her mouth. You never know how high the standards are of the person interviewing you!

[Jenni811, RN]

Never even heard of this type of interview! :) but my guess is they will want to know what type of leader you are (passive, agressive, authoriarian whatever you use to describe yourself), Your teamwork skills. I've always had the question in an interview "give me a time you were in a team and there was a difficult team member. how did you deal with it?"....something along the lines of that. So go in thinking of a few examples of being on a team.

[LegzRN]

I've had two of these which consisted of the manager walking through the ED trying to grab whoever wasn't busy. I was in the interview for 2 minutes before they called a trauma overhead and everyone left.

[tracie0305]

I actually had my peer interview for the ER two weeks ago. I am a new grad and they told me they were interviewing 7 new grads but only hiring six so of course I was very nervous. But it went great and I got hired. First, I would say definitely wear a suit. I wore a black pants suit with the jacket. They asked me a ton of questions about, "Why do I want to work in the ER, name my best clinical experience during nursing school and why, if I saw another coworker reading a patient's chart they were not assigned to what would I do?" They also looked at my previous job experiences (i was a middle school teacher before) and asked me scenarios related to that as well.

Just go in, smile and have a bubbly personality and it will go well. You will do great. Let us know how it goes!!